Hey everyone, I posted about Tinyboards here a little while back ([original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1oug5ec/tinyboards_a_selfhosted_rustpowered_reddit/)). The response was encouraging enough that I decided to stop patching the old codebase and just start fresh due to stacking issues from several refactors.

So that's what I did — I rewrote basically everything from scratch over the past several months. New database schema, new auth system, new frontend, the works. I'll be honest: I used AI tooling pretty heavily during the rewrite to move faster, but every decision — architecture, schema design, feature scope — was made by me. It's still very much a human-driven project. I'm writing this because I think it's ready for people to look at again.

The stack is the same at its core (Rust + GraphQL backend, Vue 3 / Nuxt 3 frontend) but it's a much cleaner foundation now. The database alone went from a messy legacy schema to something I'm actually proud of — proper UUIDs, ENUM types, partitioned tables for votes and notifications, row-level security on private data.

Feature-wise everything from the original post is still there, plus a few things that are new or much more fleshed out:

- **Streams** — custom curated feeds where you subscribe to specific boards or even specific flairs within boards. You can make them public and share them with others.

- **Wiki per board** — each board can have its own wiki with revision history and permission controls

- **Reactions** — emoji reactions on posts and comments, configurable per board

- **Flair filtering** — filter your feed by flair, not just by board

Deployment tooling (Docker, systemd, nginx configs, documentation) is something that still might need some work, but at the moment I am still fixing bugs and getting things working.

You can poke around the test instance here: **dev.tinyboards.net** — registration requires a short application answer, nothing serious.

If you want to follow along or help shape where this goes, the GitHub is at **github.com/tinyboard/tinyboards** and there's a Discord invite link in the readme as a button. That's really the main thing I'm looking for right now — people who are interested in this kind of project and want to be involved early, or just people who want to hang out.

Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone who commented on the first post. It genuinely kept me going.